Transformations of the classics via early modern commentaries / edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Enenkel, K. A. E.

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 29.

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--Appreciation--Europe.

Classical literature.

Classical literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Commentaries played an important role in the transmission of the classical heritage. Early modern intellectuals rarely read classical authors in a simple and “direct” form, but generally via intermediary paratexts, especially all kinds of commentaries. Commentaries presented the classical texts in certain ways that determined and guided the readers’ perception and usages of the texts being commented upon. Early modern commentaries shaped not only school and university education and professional scholarship, but also intellectual and cultural life in the broadest sense, including politics, religion, art, entertainment, health care, geographical discoveries et cetera, and even various professional activities and segments of life that were seemingly far removed from scholarship and learning, such as warfare and engineering. Contributors include: Susanna de Beer, Valéry Berlincourt, Marijke Crab, Jeanine De Landtsheer, Karl Enenkel, Gergő Gellérfi, Trine Arlund Hass, Ekaterina Ilyushechkina, Ronny Kaiser, Marc Laureys, Christoph Pieper, Katharina Suter-Meyer, and Floris Verhaart.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction – The Transformation of the Classics. Practices, Forms, and Functions of Early Modern Commenting / Karl A.E. Enenkel

Horace and Ramist Dialectics: Pierre Gaultier Chabot’s (1516–1598?) Commentaries / Floris B. Verhaart

Changing Metatexts and Changing Poetic Ideals / Trine Arlund Hass

Horaz als Schulfibel und als elitärer Gründungstext des deutschen Humanismus. Die illustrierte Horazausgabe des Jakob Locher (1498) / Christoph Pieper

Petrus Nannius als Philologe und Literaturkritiker im Lichte seines Kommentars zur Ars Poetica des Horaz / Marc Laureys

Scholarly Polemic: Bartolomeo Fonzio’s Forgotten Commentary on Juvenal / Gergő Gellérfi

Commenting on Claudian’s ‘Political Poems’, 1612/1650 / Valéry Berlincourt

Josse Bade’s Familiaris Commentarius on Valerius Maximus (1510): A School Commentary? / Marijke Crab

Illustrations as Commentary and Readers’ Guidance. The Transformation of Cicero’s De Officiis into a German Emblem Book by Johann von Schwarzenberg, Heinrich Steiner, and Christian Egenolff (1517–1520; 1530/1531; 1550) / Karl A.E. Enenkel

Understanding National Antiquity. Transformations of Tacitus’s Germania in Beatus Rhenanus’s Commentariolus / Ronny Kaiser

Annotating Tacitus: The Case of Justus Lipsius / Jeanine De Landtsheer

The Survival of Pliny in Padua. Transforming Classical Scholarship during the Botanical Renaissance / Susanna de Beer

Elephants and Bears through the Eyes of Scholars: A Case Study of Pliny’s Zoology in the 15th–16th Centuries / Ekaterina Ilyushechkina

Frühneuzeitliche Landesbeschreibung in einer antiken Geographie – Der Rhein aus persönlicher Perspektive in Vadians Kommentar zu Pomponius Mela (1522) / Katharina Suter-Meyer

Index Nominum.

Notes:

"The idea for this volume originated in the 15th International Conference of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS), Neo-Latin, Language of Religion and Politics, held at the Westfalische Wilhelmsuniversitat Munster in August of 2012"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-26078-1

OCLC:

865650872

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004260788 DOI